Sujet : Re: The Trouble with Geraniums...
De : wthyde1953 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (William Hyde)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 22. Jun 2025, 19:46:29
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Titus G wrote:
On 21/06/25 10:27, William Hyde wrote:
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
"The Trouble with Vampires" by Lynsay Sands
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The trouble with geraniums
is that they’re much too red!
The trouble with my toast is that
it’s far too full of bread.
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The trouble with a diamond
is that it’s much too bright.
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.
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The troubles with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.
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The trouble with my looking-glass
is that it shows me, me;
there’s trouble in all sorts of things
where it should never be.
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Mervyn Peake.
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s/geraniums/vampires
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William Hyde
Sounds like Complete Nonsense to me.
But is the Dwarf of Battersea SF? What would JRRT say?
William Hyde